Test 4 · ★ · Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and heal…

What would happen to a cheetah that never chased anything for years?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not chase · To what, where: cheetah

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 112 «Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals busy and healthy» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cheetah	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cheetah	det
6	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 chased	obj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 chased	advmod
9	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cheetah	acl:relcl
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 chased	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 anything	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a cheetah	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not chase	past		a cheetah					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Nothing, cheetahs are built to sit still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cheetahs	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux:pass
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 built	advcl
8	still	still	ADV	_	7 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		Nothing cheetahs					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	sit	to-infinitive					still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would run even faster than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 run	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	It					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It could get unfit and bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bored	cc
6	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unfit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	It					unfit property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It would turn into a different cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 cat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cat	amod
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					into a different cat result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cat=Result

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